Readers of London's The Sun dress as Borat to celebrate the release of the 'Borat' DVD. (photo: News International/WireImage.com)

Home Alone

Chris Rock's cure for the 7-year itch

"I think I'm funniest as a real guy," Chris Rock told The Courant. "That's the discovery I've made through this movie. I like playing a grown-up." He's referring to his new film 'I Think I Love My Wife,' in which he plays a husband struggling with temptation (in the form of Kerry Washington). Rock (pictured here with his real-life wife, Malaak) co-wrote the film with Louis C.K.

Rock denies the film is entirely autobiographical. "It's a lot of people's lives," he told reporters at a press junket. "It's not my special life. I definitely relate to the character. I've been married 10 years. I have two kids. I live in the suburbs (Alpine, N.J.). I commute into the city. It stops there pretty much." Though he did admit: "I'm real bored. I'm an entertainer. I bore easy." But he offers this advice to those with a roving eye: "You just go home....You see attractive people everyday. You notice them and keep it moving." (photo: Jeffrey Mayer/WireImage.com)

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Big Mamma

Seyfried lands a major mother

Amanda Seyfried may be calling Meryl Streep "mamma" if all goes well. According to the Hollywood Reporter, Seyfried is in final negotiations to play the daughter bride to Streep's Mamma in 'Mamma Mia.' The film, which will be exec produced by Playtone's Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson, is the adaptation of the Broadway musical based on ABBA's songs. In the story, Mamma has never revealed the identity of her daughter's father, and on the eve of her wedding, the bride tracks down three possible father candidates. (In another gene pool casting coup, Pierce Brosnan is up for the lead father figure.) (photo: Gregg DeGuire/WireImage.com)

[Hollywood Reporter]

Snark Infestation

Those looking for a big dose of snark with their coverage of the 2008 presidential campaign may be able to tune into 'The Gaggle,' a political satire series being developed at HBO. A pilot for the show was performed live at the Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, with hosts comedian Marc Maron, Republican operative Mike Murphy and Ana Marie Cox (the former Wonkette blogger, pictured here). Using up-and-coming political journalists and a hefty dose of comedy, the show hopes to draw a young audience. "The Gaggle" refers to the informal banter tossed back and forth between journalists and the White House press secretary prior to a briefing.

[Variety.com]

Liev Schreiber, Naomi Watts, Jessica Monty and Pablo Schreiber celebrate the opening of 'Dying City,' starring Pablo Schreiber (of 'The Wire'). (photo: Bruce Glikas/FilmMagic.com)

Adult Film Star

How Patricia Clarkson's next movie is bringing sexy back

Patricia Clarkson has signed on to be in an "adult" film — but not the kind you're thinking of. She will join Penelope Cruz and Ben Kingsley in an untitled adaptation of Philip Roth's 'The Dying Animal,' a novella. According to Variety, the story is about a student who has a torrid affair with her professor and returns years later with surprising news. As one of the film's producers, Tom Rosenberg, promises: "[Roth's] one of the great American writers, and this one is squarely an adult story, with the kind of erotic scenes that hark back to the films of the 1970s." (photo: Sylvain Gaboury/FilmMagic.com)

[Variety]

Photo Finish

The Sopranos' final family portrait

"Even though it's a mob show, 'The Sopranos' is based on members of my family," creator David Chase told Vanity Fair. "It's about as personal as you can get." The cast sat for one last family portrait taken by famed photographer Annie Liebowitz for April's Vanity Fair. The head of the family is ready to move on. "It's been a great opportunity, but I don't have much trepidation about it ending," James Gandolfini said. "It's time for me to do other things." But his mob-wife, Edie Falco, is concerned about the future, feeling that experiences like 'The Sopranos' are rare: "it scares the hell out of me," she admitted. (photo: Kevin Mazur/WireImage.com)

[Access Hollywood]

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[Vanity Fair]

Rob Lowe and Rachel Griffiths at the 24th Annual William S. Paley Television Festival - An Evening with 'Brothers & Sisters.' (photo: Kevin Parry/WireImage.com)

A Royal Pain

Queen Latifah on what was hard about her latest role

Playing an HIV-positive woman wasn't hard, according to Queen Latifah, who stars as Ana Willis in 'Life Support,' premiering on HBO this Saturday. "The only challenge was trying to stay in character when you've got people driving past you on the street going, 'Queen!' 'Do it Latifah!' 'That's LATIFAH!"' she explains.

"I really felt like I really could relate to the characters, to the situations, a family disrupted by drug addiction. I could relate to that just in my own family," she told the Herald News. "So I could relate to Ana's sense of wanting to get out there and see what life had to offer, although we took dramatically different turns. And redemption as well, having the second chance of really trying to repair those relationships after you feel like, OK, I messed up, but I'm back on track and I really want to get things back to where they were."

Though she's known for comic roles, Latifah enjoys drama: "I mean, that's what actually made me really want to get into acting, was me playing this role in high school in Godspell....that show, carrying the body of Jesus down the centre aisle of the auditorium, crying and singing this song, it just always let me know that I kind of enjoyed that." (photo: Michael Loccisano/FilmMagic.com)

[News.com]

Spike Lee Honored

John Leguizamo presented Spike Lee with the ROBIE Humanitarian Award on Monday night at the 28th Annual Jackie Robinson Foundation Awards Dinner. More than 1100 guests were on hand at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York. The Foundation, founded in 1973 by Jackie's widow Rachel, provides college scholarships and leadership training to minority students. According to the foundation, "the ROBIE Award is the Foundation's highest tribute to an extraordinary individual who has devoted a lifetime to the promotion of social justice and human diginity." (photo: Stephen Lovekin/WireImage.com)

[MLB.com]

[The Jackie Robinson Foundation]

Good Fellas

Martin Scorsese is reteaming with Mark Wahlberg — but not for a 'Departed' sequel (yet). The two have signed on to develop (as executive producers) a series for HBO about Atlantic City. Based on the book 'Boardwalk Empire: The Birth, High Times, and Corruption of Atlantic City' by Nelson Johnson, the series will follow the birth and growth of Atlantic City — from seaside resort to gambling mecca, and all the backroom struggles that entails. (photo: Kevin Mazur/WireImage.com)

[TV Guide]

Jeremy Piven and Katt Williams at HBO's 13th Annual U.S. Comedy Arts Festival. (photo: Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic.com)

Nice Work If You Can Get It

Speaking on a panel at the US Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen over the weekend, Adrian Grenier and Kevin Connolly expressed gratitude for their jobs. "Adrian and I sit around all day and look at each other like, man, this is great. I love this. We love our jobs, and, honestly, I couldn't possibly be happier, man, if I tried," gushed Connolly. "This show is about friendship and having the time of your lives," Grenier explained. "Every week we do a new episode, we're in a new, exciting location. All we have to do is have fun all day long."

In addition to fun and travel, the show has taught Grenier some life lessons. As he said: "One of the lessons of 'Entourage' is to be humble and appreciate where you are. And to know where you came from. And that, if it all goes (away), you always have your friends and what's at your core. And not to really reach too high, and just to, like, let it come and let it flow. And I think that's a lesson I've learned to adopt in my life, and it works. Try it." (photo: Jason Merritt/FilmMagic.com)

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[Denver Post]

Honor Role

Stephen Colbert is no stranger to being honored; he honors himself regularly on 'The Colbert Report.' But this weekend the fêting came from another source when the US Comedy Arts Festival (sponsored by HBO) bestowed him with the award for Person of the Year. "What an honor. An honor to receive and an honor for you to give to me," Colbert said. As for the faux conservative he plays on his show (inspired by Bill O'Reilly), Colbert drew a distinction between himself and his alter-ego, but defended him: "He's not malicious, he's ill-informed, you know. It's just a product of his own education. And he thinks he's saying and doing the right thing, he's not actually trying to hurt anybody."

Next up for Colbert is the book he is writing about "...what is best and what's worst about America," he said. "You know, it's 20 subjects ... all of the important things, the culture war, religion, hygiene, sports." (photo: Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic.com)

[AP via MSNBC]

Chloë Sevigny at the 'Zodiac' Los Angeles premiere. (photo: Jon Kopaloff/FilmMagic.com)

Blair: Which Project?

Blair Underwood is a busy hyphenate these days. Already starring in 'The New Adventures of Old Christine,' the actor is prepping to direct his first feature, 'The Bridge to Nowhere,' in Pittsburgh. Starring Ving Rhames, the film is about a unique start-up business: a high-end escort service launched by a prostitute and four blue-collar men.

After that, he's starring in and producing the thriller 'My Soul to Keep,' and will be taking one of the weekly spots on the couch in the new HBO series 'In Treatment,' playing one of Gabriel Byrne's regular therapy clients. Plus there's the TLC series 'Easy Money' he's producing under his aptly named shingle: Intrepid Inc. (photo: John Sciulli/WireImage.com)

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Sparring Partners

Oscar De La Hoya got an early taste of the old one-two last week when Floyd Mayweather Jr. (right) posed arm in arm with his once-estranged trainer father in Las Vegas. Mayweather Sr. had been training De La Hoya, but the two parted ways when the elder Mayweather reportedly asked for a hefty $2 million fee to prep the Golden Boy for May's blockbuster against Floyd Jr. De La Hoya declined, apparently concerned that Mayweather might suffer a conflict of interest in training for a fight against his son.

The reunion was all business, according to the Canadian Press. "He may be in the corner, but not your corner," Mayweather taunted De La Hoya at the press stop. "We have our ups and downs, but he's still my father," Mayweather said. "Someday my father will bury me or I may have to bury him."

"I'm really glad I can bring family together like it's supposed to be," De La Hoya said. (photo: Johnny Nunez/WireImage.com)

[Canadian Press]

Clea's Post-'Carnivàle' Ride

In addition to her guest role on the breakout hit, 'Heroes,' Clea Duvall can be seen this month in supporting roles on the big screen. She's being singled out for her portrayal as a cynical witness in the new Fincher flick 'Zodiac.' And in 'Two Weeks,' a low-budget drama shot awhile ago but just being released, she's the daughter-in-law to über-mother Sally Fields. (photo: Paul Redmond/WireImage.com)

[HeraldNet]

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